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We often get asked about privacy by people who are new to Facebook. They're concerned about showing their personal stuff to the world. Understandable, but there's a few answers to it.
One answer is here: comprehensive advice on privacy from Facebook. It includes a range of settings you can change to keep your content in front of the right people.
Facebook are constantly working on the privacy issue - giving people more control and trying to explain simply how it works. So if you have concerns or are just interested, you may find this page from them useful.
The other thing, of course,...

If you're a small business and you don't have an effective internet marketing presence, you're not in the race when potential customers are searching for the kind of product or service you sell. And let's face it, that's where people looking these days - online.
Many small businesses are missing out because they haven't done the basic things to put themselves in the running. If you are one of those businesses, here's a crash course.
The good news is you can do much of it for free. It could cost you as little as a few hundred dollars to get the essentials going.
I've tried...

We see a lot of people in our social media course who are on Linkedin, but in name only. Literally. They've set up an account, put their name on there, maybe their job title and company, some scant info, and that's about it. They know they should be doing more and suspect they can get more out of Linkedin, but the whole thing is a bit of mystery and besides, where to start?
If this might just be you too, you'll find this Linkedin Beginner's Guide useful. In it, I've identified practical, actionable things you can do to get Linkedin up...

People have been getting pretty tired of marketing messages being 'pushed' on them for some time. Now with the internet they are really over it. No one wants to click on your banner ad. Fewer people are opening your emails. And pop-up ads drive us nuts.
There is another way though. And that's to get your head around how this new media really works, and work with it. The video here provides a great intro to how you can make a mark on the internet.
Instead of interrupting people with your message, what you need to do is give them something so...

New to content marketing? We've broken it down to its component parts:
- the types of content
- the formats of content
- where you can distribute content
- the triggers that encourage folks to share your content
- a checklist of essentials before you publish
- your objectives and how you measure your content marketing
Thanks to Econsultancy for a living example of content marketing. They've visualised the parts in this 'periodic table'.
Read on to find out what all this means in lay terms.
Types of content
These are all different approaches you can take to creating content. Different angles if you like:
- how to's
- reviews
- interviews
- beginner’s...

Searching the web is so fundamental now, such an every day part of people's lives, we think how it works should be taught in schools. (Actually it's only a matter of time.) Very few people really understand, so here's the basics.
The 3 minute video here from Google themselves gives a simple explanation. Here's our synopsis.
Where does Google get its info from?
When you do a search you're actually searching what Google has found on the web and put in its index.
Where does Google's index come from? Google has these things called 'spiders' that go out search the internet - following links...